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Wal-Mart, Walton Family Gave Almost $600m in 2007

The bigger question remains as to where those "charitable" contributions were handed to.
Did the bulk go to right wing organizations such as Bob Jones University, Regent University, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, et al?

Worst*Mart "gives" to its water-carriers and fellow travelers in the exploitation society, and then deducts that from the gross, reducing their corporate tax responsibilty.

Generous...or self-serving?

Investor Sentiment and Market Returns: Now's the Time to Be Bold

The unwinding of leverage and exposure of illiquidity still has a long way to go.
What we are in now is not your typical cyclical bear. So many businesses have engaged in Enron accounting, and this has to play out.
We might have had a capitulation crash that would have made reality clear, but, due to the trading stops put into effect after '87, that is unlikely to happen.
This means that the LL/LH rollercoaster will be protracted and deeper than projected.
I see S&P500 at 1,130 as the best before this slide is over, with the 50% possibility of 930 if this is the secular bear it is looking more like.
I agree with others here: jumping into the markets full-fledged now would indeed be bold, but I think early.

Market Outlook: Watch Out, the Signs Can Be Deceiving

Oh, there is definitely another leg down, but it will be unequal fo diferent indices. The DOW and to some extent the S&P 500 will be protected because of size. Outflows from still overpriced mid and small caps wll gravitate towards the large caps, especially the consistent dividend payers.
Another mollifying aspect is that, due to computer trading now, the markets are more orderly. In the crash of '87, brokers just stopped taking calls. This created a logjam of sell orders, and the cascade ensued. This may portend that there will be no capitulation sell signal, and we are in for a violent up-and-down roller coaster ride of lower lows and lower highs for the immediate future.

Best and Worst Dow, S&P 500 Performers YTD

Hey Pepe. I really do appreciate the advice, but I prefer to make the dollars and not worry about saving the few pennies that Worse-Mart promises and never delivers.
Ben Franklin had it right: Penny wise and Pound foolish.
Worse-Mart gets people concentrating on crumbs, while they are raping the commonwealth left and right.

BTW: for your own health, do not buy meat at WMT. It is processed months in advance. Date stamps are bogus.
They fired ALL of the butchers for complaining years ago. Documented.
Don't believe me, look it up.

Best and Worst Dow, S&P 500 Performers YTD

I see that I have offended some here. Truth does that sometimes.
Want to knowwhat eally offends? Tke a look at WMT's ten year chart!
Dead money, and a LOSER when nominal inflation and a 70% dollar are factored in.
Here is another curiousity: the best DOW 30 performer last year was Honeywell, yet it was dropped from the index. Typical "sell your winners
and keep your weeds" strategy.
I would have done the opposite, dumping the retail DOG's: WMT and HD. They are not industrials anyway...they don't produce anything or provide real service; they are money traders for goods others make. In WMT's case, those goods are NOT USA.

Worse-Mart: first they kill our towns, then they kill our urban centers ( when allowed in ), then they kill our country.

But, go ahead.....take a good look at that ten year chart and tell me that this flatline is a good investment.

Best and Worst Dow, S&P 500 Performers YTD

Curious that in this crappy market, the top DOW stock is the junkiest company in America!
Worse-Mart, that sells cheap plastic junk made by semi-slaves in China.
Worse-Mart, that treats their employees like disposable garbage.
Worse-Mart, that kills once thriving communities and turns them into pits of poverty.
Worse-Mart, that instructs their non-living wage slaves how to collect off the public dole, just so they do not have to pay them decently.

Crappy market...even Crappier company.

No real american would ever shop there or invest in this paradigm of greed and ugliness!

Thursday Outlook: Where's the Big Fall?

Thank you for the informative article, with accompanying charts.
What these portend, along with the volatility, is that the markets are schizophrenic...and that a true bottom with a capitulation sell-off has not been accomplished so far. This is a rotational bear market, and sector switching is trading dollars looking for what is "safe". I expect another sucker rally next week, and then...the big kahuna. DOW will be propped somewhat by flight to safety and size, but secondary markets of smallcaps and midcaps will suffer
most.
This will be precipitated by late filers not getting the refunds they anticipated and/or their having to pay more in realized cap gains caused by creating events last year. This will then create another wave of selling to raise cash to pay the IRS.

I could be wrong, but this has happened before. Too many people panic at the same time. ( They could always file for an extension, and raise cash systematically over a period of months, but they are too human for that...most of them anyway. )

No crystal ball, just a rear view mirror.